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Literacy and Popular Culture
Using Children's Culture in the Classroom

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224 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
Most children engage with a range of popular cultural forms outside of school. Their experiences with film, television, computer games and other cultural texts are very motivating, but often find no place within the official curriculum, where children are usually restricted to conventional forms of literacy.

This book demonstrates how to use children's interests in popular culture to develop literacy in the primary classroom. The authors provide a theoretical basis for such work through an exploration of related theory and research, drawing from the fields of education, sociology and cultural studies.

Teachers are often concerned about issues of sexism, racism, violence and commercialism within the discourse of children's media texts. The authors address each of these areas and show how such issues can be explored directly with children. They present classroom examples of the use of popular culture to develop literacy in schools and include interviews with children and teachers regarding this work.

This book is relevant to all teachers and students who want to develop their understanding of the nature and potential role of popular culture within the curriculum. It will also be useful to language co-ordinators, advisers, teacher educators and anyone interested in media education in the 5-12 age-range.

 
Exploring the Concept of Culture
 
Challenging Racism, Sexism, Violence and Consumerism
 
Play and Popular Culture
 
Environmental Print
 
Encouraging the Reading Habit
 
Comics
 
Computer Games
 
Television and Film
 
Popular Music and Literacy

This is really useful book that extend and encourage students' knowledge in understanding language and literacy in a cultural context.

Mrs Svetlana Shivacheva
University Centre Croydon, Croydon College
April 21, 2015

This is a very useful book to highlight to the student teachers the ways in which they can engage pupils in the primary classroom and motivate them to utilise existing skills and understanding.

Mrs Christine Smith
Primary Education, Liverpool John Moores University
December 15, 2010

Jackie Marsh

Jackie Marsh is Professor of Education at the University of Sheffield, UK, where she conducts research on young children's play and digital literacy practices in homes, communities and early years settings and primary schools. Her most recent publications include Changing Play: Play, Media and Commercial Culture from the 1950s to the Present Day (with Bishop, 2014) and Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy (edited with Larson, 2013). Jackie is an editor of the Journal of Early Childhood Literacy. More About Author

Elaine M Millard

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